@ Adrian Tritschler · Tuesday, Dec 14, 2004 · 1 minute read · Update at Dec 14, 2004 ·
Ho hum, a smelly candle. Very unimaginative lot my cow-orkers, three bottles of wine, two tins of biscuits, a calendar and a cook book. There was one interesting present, one that invoked much amusement and howls of laughter, but that would be telling…
Riding home I finally managed to stop and take a photo of the great mass of mysterious yellow railway equipment that’s been sitting on the tracks these last two weeks. They fire up at around nine thirty at night and head out with much flashing lights, their nefarious deeds to perform, then come clanking and thumping back to roost at around 04:30 in the morning.
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.